Cwmorthin Tramway information

The Cwmorthin Tramway was a 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm) industrial tramway in North Wales, which connected the Ffestiniog Railway to the Cwmorthin Quarry and...

Cwmorthin quarry was a slate quarry west of the village of Tanygrisiau, north Wales. Quarrying on the site started in 1810. In 1860 it was connected to...

lease to Kempe and Sims. The Cwmorthin quarry, which was further down the valley, had been served by the Cwmorthin Tramway since 1850, which descended...

Bowydd, while Turner and Casson's Diphwys Casson flourished. Further off, Cwmorthin and Wrysgan quarries were dug to the south of the town, while at the head...

connected by narrow gauge tramways to the railway. The ruined mill at Blaen-y-Cwm, in 2005 The remains of Conglog mill Cwmorthin Quarry seen from across...

Oakeley was located on the north side of Allt-fawr. On the south side lay Cwmorthin quarry had by the 1880s developed into a significant operation. There...

The line over the bridge also connected with the Gorseddau and Croesor Tramways and was later used by Welsh Highland Railway passenger trains from 1923...

company in 1856. Transport was made more difficult by the attitude of the Cwmorthin quarry, through whose land the most obvious route to the Ffestiniog Railway...

inaccessible site, some 1,390 feet (420 m) above sea level, to the west of Cwmorthin. Extraction of slate began in the 1830s, and finished slates were carried...

and although the scheme fell through, a tramway was built to Gorseddau some two years later in 1855. The tramway was built on private land and therefore...

and the scale of operation increased from 1873, when the Glyn Valley Tramway opened, providing an easier route to market for the output of the quarry...

fourth to operate the exit tramway, which was completed in 1877. With the tunnel acting as a drain and an access tramway, the quarry pit was enlarged...